{"id":8082,"date":"2009-05-01T04:19:06","date_gmt":"2009-05-01T09:19:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/?p=8082"},"modified":"2010-12-25T02:47:02","modified_gmt":"2010-12-25T07:47:02","slug":"what-weve-been-up-to-behind-your-back-april-2009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2009\/05\/01\/what-weve-been-up-to-behind-your-back-april-2009\/","title":{"rendered":"Sociological Images Updates (April 2009)"},"content":{"rendered":"

NEWS!<\/strong><\/p>\n

In addition to friending us on Facebook<\/a>, you can now follow us on Twitter<\/a>!<\/p>\n

FROM THE ARCHIVES:<\/strong><\/p>\n

April last year:\u00a0 This fascinating Italian anti-immigrant poster<\/a> suggests that, if\u00a0immigration to Italy is allowed, immigrants will persecute the native Italians like U.S. colonizers did American Indians.\u00a0 It’s a pretty amazing tactic.<\/p>\n

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NEWLY ENRICHED POSTS (bottom of post may not be safe for work!):<\/strong><\/p>\n

Total Drek<\/a> revised an xkcd cartoon on the difference between causation and correlation.\u00a0 So we added it to our original post<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Sex sells ‘n stuff:<\/em><\/p>\n

Sarah Haskins makes fun of euphemistic references to female genitalia.\u00a0 We added her video to our post on our efforts to avoid using the real terms<\/a>.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

Related to discomfort with women’s genitalia, Taylor D. sent in a link to even more vintage ads for Lysol as a douche, which we added to\u00a0this post<\/a>.<\/p>\n

We added a vintage ad to our sex sells\u00a0post<\/a>.\u00a0 This one tells men that if they don’t buy Firestone tires, they won’t get laid.\u00a0 Women?\u00a0 Well I guess they don’t drive.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

Also in sex sells,\u00a0we updated our post on the sexualization of food<\/a>, this time with a Max Factor ad and a not-to-be-missed Hardee’s commercial featuring Padma Lakshmi having quite the sensual experience with a bacon burger (scroll all the way to the bottom).\u00a0<\/p>\n

We also added another image to our post<\/a> with examples of sex as “scoring.”<\/p>\n

Now to sperm: We added three more images affirming the idea that we were all once a mighty sperm (eggs, apparently, just add nutrition, if that) to this post<\/a> on the weird ways in which sperm are socially constructed.\u00a0 In one of them, a condom ad suggests that one condom could have prevented the holocaust by dressing a sperm up as Hitler.\u00a0 Another example dates back to the beginning of\u00a0the idea in 1694.<\/p>\n

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On race and ethnicity:<\/em><\/p>\n

We added material to two posts in our series on how and why\u00a0people of color are included in ads aimed at white people<\/a>.\u00a0 First, we added a set of photographs taken by Joshua B. at Office Max to our post showing how people of color are often portrayed as being more, eh em, colorful<\/a>. \u00a0Second, we added an image to our post on how people of color are literally background<\/a> or arranged so that the focal point (visually or through action) is the white person or people in the ad.<\/p>\n

We added images of sculptures that comically\/stereotypically (depending on your point of view) represent European countries to this post<\/a> about stereotyping nationalities. The installation was supposedly by 27 different artists, but it turns out to be a hoax; all of them were created by a single Czech artist.<\/p>\n

Also in ethnic stereotypes, we added a cartoon from Life<\/em> magazine suggesting that monkeys are insulted by being given Irish names.\u00a0 We added it to our collection of anti-Irish sentiment from the 1800s<\/a>.<\/p>\n

And visit this post<\/a> to see our newest example of using the notion of the “savage” to sell in the 1950s.<\/p>\n

Miguel sent us an image of a “White” Obama, which we added to our post<\/a> that asks “What do Black and White look like, anyway?”<\/p>\n

Philip D. sent us a set of Crown Royal ads that reportedly target a “general” and a specifically African American audience, respectively, which we added to our post<\/a> about marketing products to different groups.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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On gender:<\/em>\u00a0<\/p>\n

Elizabeth M. sent us a link to fashion designer\u00a0Nina Ricci’s new line of shoes.\u00a0 They’re high high HIGH heels!\u00a0 We added it to some other real hobblers here<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Women cannot be counted on to hold it together in the face of low calorie sweets… or at least that’s what another commercial<\/a> tells us.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Ben O. sent us a link to a company that makes pink protective gear for female construction workers.\u00a0 We added it to our post featuring pink handcuffs for cops<\/a>.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

There’s now another image up from the Evan Williams bourbon “The Longer You Wait” ad campaign<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Keely W. sent in a link to the new Fling candy bar, just for girls.\u00a0 We added it to our post on gendered candy marketing<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The Daily Show spoofed the obsession with Michelle Obama’s clothes.\u00a0 Andrea G. sent in the link and we added it to our collection of examples of this obsession<\/a>.\u00a0 We also added a picture of the cover of a new book: Michelle Style: Celebrating the First Lady of Fashion<\/em>.<\/p>\n

We added a picture of a sink that looks like a woman’s lower half to our post about urinals shaped like women’s bodies<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

And, finally, does a month go by where we don’t update our BOOBS! post?\u00a0 Rarely.\u00a0 This time, though, we’ve got something special: Jezebel offered us a photo essay of a boob shaped milk cartoon, from fridge to trashcan.\u00a0 Visit our updated post here<\/a> (scroll to the bottom) and enjoy this teaser:<\/p>\n

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